A huge agreement between the server farms company Anan and the artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure giant Crusoe is pushing a new wave of heavy computing power into Afula, where work is already running 24 hours a day, six days a week. The deal, which reflects an estimated valuation of over one billion dollars for Anan, centers on the establishment and operation of an advanced server farm at the company’s site in Afula, with an initial capacity of 40 megawatts and room for significant expansion.
Who Holds the Levers
Anan is owned by the singer Omer Adam, Maor Malul and the investment professional Nessim Sariel-Gaon. Crusoe’s entry into the Israeli market is described as a major move for one of the fastest-growing and most innovative companies in the world in the field of AI infrastructure, serving end customers on the scale of OpenAI and Oracle. The long-term agreement is expected to amount to hundreds of millions of dollars, turning the Afula site into a strategic asset in a market shaped by a severe global shortage of data center infrastructure and electricity availability.
The company’s activity in Israel is led by Alon Yariv, who joined Crusoe after selling it his activity in a deal that was estimated at about 200 million dollars. That kind of revolving-door arrangement is the familiar choreography of corporate power: the same people, the same money, the same infrastructure, just repackaged for the next round of expansion.
Who Pays for the Expansion
On the ground in Afula, the works are already in full swing and moving at an accelerated pace. The planned complex is expected to span tens of thousands of square meters and reach a total capacity of 100 megawatts, using advanced cooling systems and high electrical redundancy. For Anan, which was established only four years ago, the project is a leap into the big leagues, but the article makes clear that the leap is built on massive energy demands and industrial-scale infrastructure.
Anan does not operate in the traditional model of real estate for servers. Instead, it focuses on building a heavy computing infrastructure platform tailored specifically to the needs of artificial intelligence. That means the machinery of AI growth is not abstract software floating above society; it is concrete, power-hungry, and rooted in land, electricity, and capital concentration. The people living around such projects do not get to decide the priorities set by these firms, but they do live with the consequences of the infrastructure race.
The Global Race for More Power
Only last October, Crusoe raised 1.4 billion dollars at a valuation of 10 billion dollars, and now it is choosing the venture of Adam and his partners as its strategic partner in Israel. Alongside the deal with Crusoe, Anan is promoting the establishment of additional sites in Israel with a total scope of over 500 megawatts, and has signed additional agreements with global entities in the field.
The article says this cooperation continues despite security and regional complexity, signaling that leading technology companies in the world still see Israel as a central destination for the establishment of the most complex computing systems of the current era. In other words, the expansion of AI infrastructure keeps moving forward because the institutions with capital and access to power keep treating the region as a profitable site for their ambitions.
The Afula project is not presented as a community need, a public utility, or a mutual aid effort. It is a corporate agreement, backed by global money and built for the demands of AI giants. The site’s 40-megawatt starting capacity, its planned expansion to 100 megawatts, and the broader push for over 500 megawatts across additional sites all point to the same hierarchy: decisions made at the top, infrastructure built on the ground, and ordinary people left to absorb the scale of the machine.